Korea: 16 hours per day of Schooling

With the next lot of world Schooling results out tomorrow I've just watched a report showing South Korean kids going to school for 16 hours per day!!!

Now complete with that WAG!!!!

Dangerous practice very dangerous.

This competitive world is going to kill our children.

Horrible country Vile place.

You go there and the towns are empty they have woman working in empty hotels and restaurants dishing out tables pretending they are busy expecting hurds of people to come. This is all to try and disguise the monstrosity that their country are running.To hide it from the media and any tourism or potential journalism.
all kids forced into long hours of schooling and various activitys and all men forced to march and work for hours and hours on end.
Their might be a few who slip the Radar for different reasons but not many and their life quality is usually very poor

"Too much work and not enough play makes Johnny a dull boy" - saying from when I was young.

And I loved to play !!!! ha,ha

Blooobirds

Horrible country Vile place.

You go there and the towns are empty they have woman working in empty hotels and restaurants dishing out tables pretending they are busy expecting hurds of people to come. This is all to try and disguise the monstrosity that their country are running.To hide it from the media and any tourism or potential journalism.
all kids forced into long hours of schooling and various activitys and all men forced to march and work for hours and hours on end.
Their might be a few who slip the Radar for different reasons but not many and their life quality is usually very poor

Think you're getting mixed up with North Korea mate. There's nothing wrong with S Korea. In fact their quality of life is excellent.

Horrible country Vile place.

You go there and the towns are empty they have woman working in empty hotels and restaurants dishing out tables pretending they are busy expecting hurds of people to come. This is all to try and disguise the monstrosity that their country are running.To hide it from the media and any tourism or potential journalism.
all kids forced into long hours of schooling and various activitys and all men forced to march and work for hours and hours on end.
Their might be a few who slip the Radar for different reasons but not many and their life quality is usually very poor

Erm I don't mean to be rude, but aren't you mistaking South Korea for North Korea? I'm only asking as South Korea has one of the highest living standards in Asia and the 26th highest in the world.

Dangerous practice very dangerous.

This competitive world is going to kill our children.

Agreed totally.

Having taught in South Korea for two years in Primary Schools recently the schooling system was incredibly harsh but it very much is a case of the have's and have nots. Those families with money will put their kids through hagwons or private schooling after normal school has finished i,e. piano, math, taekwondo, science, english etc etc. The kids I taught could not believe when I said at the end of my day in primary school I would just go home and play football, its a shame because in many ways they are missing out on their childhood. Though the poor families of which there are many literally stand no chance. Their kids fall behind very quickly and never catch up, though I sense they had a lot more fun growing up even if their future prospects were hamstrung by a lack of family finances.

How they perform in primary school influences what middle and high school they go to which has a knock on effect to what University they go to, if they fail at this stage they very rarely get the chance to make it up. By the time they are in high school the stress is palpable,especially in the schools where they are expected to achieve. My high school teaching friends regularly felt bad about teaching class with students who had visibly been studying all day and night and could barely stay awake in class. Failure to get the correct results or cope with the demand of studying led to cases of suicide - a sad product of a highly competitive system pushed too far. There seemed to be no end to the level of competitiveness and keeping up with the Jones' (or Kim's!) amongst the parents.

That said I loved my time in Korea (South!) particularly when we decided to sign Kimbo, helped put Wales on the map as before then they all assumed the UK was just England though going shopping and seeing the massive posters of Jack players in a Seoul shopping centre did very nearly tip me over the edge

Thanks Ely, interesting to read that. You need a balance in life between work and play particularly at a young age.

In Japan, workers only get a couple of weeks of holiday a year and often don't even take that. What sort of life is that?

In most of Asia the annual leave is shocking. I've got a mate who works in Japan and gets 10 days a year - he had to goto hospital for a week and a bit for an emergency operation... He would have died without the operation... But when he came out found that his firm had deducted the days from his leave so now only has 3 days for the year and most of his family live in the middle of American... Gutting...

Horrible country Vile place.

You go there and the towns are empty they have woman working in empty hotels and restaurants dishing out tables pretending they are busy expecting hurds of people to come. This is all to try and disguise the monstrosity that their country are running.To hide it from the media and any tourism or potential journalism.
all kids forced into long hours of schooling and various activitys and all men forced to march and work for hours and hours on end.
Their might be a few who slip the Radar for different reasons but not many and their life quality is usually very poor

I think you could do with additional Geography lessons with answers like that. You are on about North Korea!!! Pmsl

Dangerous practice very dangerous.

This competitive world is going to kill our children.

Agreed. We've lost sight of the truly important things in life, education is very important but not to that scale!

Horrible country Vile place.

You go there and the towns are empty they have woman working in empty hotels and restaurants dishing out tables pretending they are busy expecting hurds of people to come. This is all to try and disguise the monstrosity that their country are running.To hide it from the media and any tourism or potential journalism.
all kids forced into long hours of schooling and various activitys and all men forced to march and work for hours and hours on end.
Their might be a few who slip the Radar for different reasons but not many and their life quality is usually very poor

Erm I don't mean to be rude, but aren't you mistaking South Korea for North Korea? I'm only asking as South Korea has one of the highest living standards in Asia and the 26th highest in the world.

Yeah im getting mixed up Sorry

I assumed that we were on about north korea given the way the country is.
I know south korea is alot better a very nice place

In most of Asia the annual leave is shocking. I've got a mate who works in Japan and gets 10 days a year - he had to goto hospital for a week and a bit for an emergency operation... He would have died without the operation... But when he came out found that his firm had deducted the days from his leave so now only has 3 days for the year and most of his family live in the middle of American... Gutting...

Around 20 years ago I was offered a very, very highly paid, for the time, job in America with a Federal (not State or County) Agency. The salary, tax rates, health, pension, huge motor and other benefits were, to me, on a different planet to those I was used to. I then read the "annual leave" entitlement, it started at ten days (plus public holidays) but if I had a, can't remember the exact phrase, stable work record or something, then after 10 years service I'd get an extra day! I think was 15 years I'd get an extra two days, something like 25 years I'd a get further week!! Screw that, I'd be dead before I could have a proper holiday!!

I'm not sure Shiony as I genuinely can't remember but I think one of the "benefits" was that the Feds paid for sick leave whereas most State/County's don't.

Also had a mate around the same time that worked for a Japanese Bank, can remember but can't spell it, in London, was the top non Japanese on the firm. His base salary at the time would have taken me ten years to be paid, his minimum bonus was a years salary, if he got that he would have been sacked for being an idiot (his words) and whilst he got the UK minimum of 20 days a year leave, if he'd have taken more than four or five days, for family reasons, he'd have been "burnt". I never did get an explanation on that term but figured it out when he was saying that his bosses (in Japan) do not take their holidays and its a sort of competition as to who can take the least. Guys who hadn't taken a day off in 30 years were common place!

Feckin loons. Who wants to be the richest man in the Bone Yard? Not me, the wife wants 20 grand out me when I die, sorted, the other 24 million pounds I've buried in Adam's garden, can't remember if it was the front one or the back one though, silly me.

Horrible country Vile place.

You go there and the towns are empty they have woman working in empty hotels and restaurants dishing out tables pretending they are busy expecting hurds of people to come. This is all to try and disguise the monstrosity that their country are running.To hide it from the media and any tourism or potential journalism.
all kids forced into long hours of schooling and various activitys and all men forced to march and work for hours and hours on end.
Their might be a few who slip the Radar for different reasons but not many and their life quality is usually very poor

That's north dopey! I been to South Korea 5 times for work and it ain't nothing like u said.

Horrible country Vile place.

You go there and the towns are empty they have woman working in empty hotels and restaurants dishing out tables pretending they are busy expecting hurds of people to come. This is all to try and disguise the monstrosity that their country are running.To hide it from the media and any tourism or potential journalism.
all kids forced into long hours of schooling and various activitys and all men forced to march and work for hours and hours on end.
Their might be a few who slip the Radar for different reasons but not many and their life quality is usually very poor

Erm I don't mean to be rude, but aren't you mistaking South Korea for North Korea? I'm only asking as South Korea has one of the highest living standards in Asia and the 26th highest in the world.

Yeah im getting mixed up Sorry

I assumed that we were on about north korea given the way the country is.
I know south korea is alot better a very nice place

Haha fair enuff lad.